Strength Quotes
Not just muscle and might, but the inner resolve that carries people through impossible situations.
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"Strength lies in collective refusal of the given order"Marcuse, Herbert
"Strength comes from recognizing your own complicity and refusing it"Marcuse, Herbert
"To be human is to resist the complete rationalization of human existence."Horkheimer, Max
"The body remembers what the mind is forced to forget."Horkheimer, Max
"To be singular is to resist the systematic reduction to the universal."Horkheimer, Max
"Strength emerges from the collective consciousness of a class struggling for liberation."Lukács, György
"Strength lies in the capacity to negate what oppresses, not in acceptance."Marcuse, Herbert
"The body is a plane of organization waiting to be deorganized."Deleuze, Gilles
"Strength is the capacity to create new becomings."Deleuze, Gilles
"Identity is always deceptive; it is society that imposes its forms upon us."Adorno, Theodor
"Identity is the mark of barbarism, not enlightenment; it is the refusal to think."Adorno, Theodor
"A body is defined not by its form but by what it can do."Deleuze, Gilles
"Strength lies in acknowledging our limitations."Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
"Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself"Sartre, Jean-Paul
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."Camus, Albert
"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."Camus, Albert
"The only victory I can conceive is spiritual."Camus, Albert
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."Camus, Albert
"What makes us unique is our capacity to resist and reinvent ourselves."Foucault, Michel
"To be responsible is to be singular and irreplaceable."Derrida, Jacques
"We inherit responsibility for what preceded us and what comes after."Derrida, Jacques
"Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself."Sartre, Jean-Paul
"The body is not an obstacle to consciousness but its foundation."Sartre, Jean-Paul
"Strength is measured not by what one possesses, but by what one can release."Foucault, Michel
"The human condition is radical freedom, and this freedom is irreducible and non-negotiable."Sartre, Jean-Paul
"We create ourselves through our commitments; without commitment, we are nothing."Sartre, Jean-Paul
"We must stand on our own two feet and fend for ourselves."Popper, Karl
"Strength comes not from dominating others, but from understanding ourselves."Popper, Karl
"To be virtuous is to have a unity of purpose throughout one's life."MacIntyre, Alasdair
"A virtue is a human quality the possession of which tends to enable us to flourish."MacIntyre, Alasdair